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<h1 class="sectionedit1"><a name="geda_s_release_engineering" id="geda_s_release_engineering">gEDA&#039;s Release Engineering</a></h1>
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<h2 class="sectionedit2"><a name="geda_gaf_release_creation_checklist" id="geda_gaf_release_creation_checklist">gEDA/gaf Release Creation Checklist</a></h2>
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Here is a list of steps that are taken every time when creating a new gEDA/gaf release:
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> In the toplevel configure.ac file update the package version in the AC_INIT macro, the date in the AX_GIT_VERSION macro, and update libgeda&#039;s shared library version (libgeda&#039;s so version should follow what is described in <a href="http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_91.html" class="urlextern" title="http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_91.html"  rel="nofollow"> Autobook&#039;s library versioning</a> chapter).</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Update the toplevel NEWS file with a summary of all the changes in the new release.  The NEWS file forms the basis for the release notes.</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Manually run all tests.  gnetlist has a nice set of regression tests in gnetlist/tests.  gsymcheck also has a nice set of regression tests in gsymcheck/tests.  Open up all schematics in gschem/examples and gschem/tests.  You can do this by running the following in the toplevel directory:</div>
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<pre class="code">        make check</pre>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Run make update-po in all po directories.  Commit these changes before continuing.</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Update all the versions and dates in the man pages (gschem.1, gnetlist.1, gsymcheck.1, grenum.1)</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Go into the wiki pages and update the “gEDA/gaf File Format Document” and add the release date to the version field.</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Update the wiki documentation snapshot (which is shipped with the release) by doing the following steps:</div>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Get the wiki source files.  (For now you have to ask Ales to get them from the SEUL.org server; eventually this should be changed so they are available without asking anybody).  Put these files in some directory called “wikisrc”.  Also make an output directory called “htmloutput”</div>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Download a handy php-based package called “offline-doku”.  Latest version seems to be v0.1.1 and it was last seen at: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/limb/files/" class="urlextern" title="http://sourceforge.net/projects/limb/files/"  rel="nofollow"> offline-doku </a>.</div>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> You might need to tweak/add the following line in offline-doku/make.php to make sure it has enough memory to operate: <pre class="code"> ini_set(&#039;memory_limit&#039;,&#039;256M&#039;);</pre>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Now run offline-doku like this: <pre class="code"> cd offline-doku-0.1.1; php make.php --verbose /path/to/wikisrc /path/to/htmloutput</pre>

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 This should processes all the dokuwiki source files and convert them into html files.
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Tar/copy the htmloutput directory into the gaf git directory docs/</div>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Move aside (do not delete yet) the current wiki directory to something like “wikiold”.  Rename the new htmloutput directory to “wiki”</div>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Run: <pre class="code"> cp -f wikiold/design.css wiki </pre>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Run: <pre class="code"> cp -f wikiold/.gitignore wiki </pre>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Run: <pre class="code"> cp -f wikiold/Makefile.am </pre>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Check to see what has changed using git status and git diff.  Go through and add any new files to git using git add.</div>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Check to see what has changed between wikiold and wiki using: <pre class="code"> diff -r -q wikiold wiki </pre>

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  Fix anything is incorrect.
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Go through all the html files and remove the contents of the line (but don&#039;t delete the empty line): <pre class="code"> &lt;a href=.&gt;start&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/br&gt;</pre>

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  Eventually this should be automated or somehow fixed.  Removing this start link will make the html pages look better and reduce the number of unnecessary file changes (in git).
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Finally commit all the changes/files.</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Commit all of the above changes (preferably in between each step)</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> To build the distribution tarball (and verify all tests on the contained files) run:</div>
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<pre class="code">        make distcheck</pre>

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and make sure it completes without any errors.  After this is complete you will find the distribution tarball in the toplevel directory (named geda-gaf-VERSION.tar.gz).
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Copy the distribution tarball some place else along with the toplevel README (which should be renamed to gEDA-gaf-VERSION-README.txt).</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Create a file the md5sum for the toplevel tarball.</div>
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<pre class="code">        md5sum -b geda-gaf-1.5.3.tar.gz &gt; geda-gaf-1.5.3.md5sum</pre>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Untar the tarballs and compare what is inside to what is in the repository.  You should only find additional dist files inside the tarballs and no missing required files.</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Build and test the distribution tarball one last time.</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Make sure everything is committed and pushed and then put down the correctly formatted tag:</div>
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<pre class="code">        git tag -a 1.5.3-20090829</pre>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Push all the commits to the main repository.  If you are on a branch the command should be:</div>
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<pre class="code">        git push origin remote_branch_name</pre>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Push the tag to the main repository:</div>
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<pre class="code">        git push --tags</pre>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Upload distribution tarball, README, and md5sum file to the correct place</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Write release announcement and send to mailing lists</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Write up release notes and send pointer to mailing lists (named: geda-gaf-VERSION-releasenotes.html)</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Update news update the sources download pages on the website with links to the new version</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Update the <a href="geda-todos.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-todos.html">todos</a> removing the release information.</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Done!</div>
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